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74 Hume Street 2½ storey, Queen Anne style house with L-shaped verandah and gabled west bay (c. 1900). Description Verandah spans full width of house and returns into projecting west bay beyond. Original, slatted screens remain below deck, and sturdy pickets, with moulded handrail above, are also original. Tall, turned posts have square bases, built directly off deck. Beam has lower moulding only, plain soffit boards, and hipped roof above. Front door is half-glazed, period panelled door (behind aluminum storm). Patterned-glass transom window remains within plain segmental arch. Front windows comprise lower, 1/1 windows either side of wooden mullion, under segmental-headed, patterned-glass, transom window (behind three-pane wooden storm). At west bay window, 1/1 windows are behind four-pane wooden storm. Second floor has two 1/1 windows, with traditional wooden sills and segmental arches, behind four-pane storms. Upper level bay windows are as at ground floor, and soffits throughout are of beaded boards. Front gable has lower, shingled pitch, and typical alternating bands of painted shingles above. Central group of (originally) three windows now comprises taller, central, 1/1 window, now painted over, and windows either side with painted glass at upper sashes and louvres substituting lower sashes. Stepped, wooden cornices remain above. Gable fascia is finished with typical, simple rectangular panels formed by planted battens, with shingle moulding above. Small, rebuilt chimney exists at roof peak, and roofs are clad in new, rustic, dark-brown asphalt shingles. |
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